in this issue

From the Editor

A girl can dream, right? (...of cures and new insulins...)

Quotable Quotes

(S)he said what?!?

Fingersticks

This can't be FDA approved...

New Now Next

Novo Nordisk’s next-generation insulin, the JDRF’s international efforts to further the artificial pancreas, BodyMedia’s GoWear fit armband, Olympia Dukakis and Ask.Screen.Know. spread the word about free MediCare diabetes screening, and insulin maker sanofi-aventis’ glucose monitoring partnership.

diaTribe Dialogue

Obesity expert Dr. Lee Kaplan of Massachusetts General Hospital tells us how we may be able to bypass the bypass…

Learning Curve

Decoding the evolving FDA perspective on diabetes devices (and how accurate is your meter, anyway?!).

SUM Musings

Kerri Morrone Sparling discusses what an active patient she was while under the captivity of bed rest.

thinking like a pancreas

Gary Scheiner discusses the complicated topic of insulin on board – and how to be safer when using your insulin pump.

Trial Watch

Intensive diabetes clinics with CGM for teenagers and cell therapy for type 1 diabetes.